"It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois."

-- Albert Einstein

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“I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.”
“I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.”

Source : "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.
“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.”
“Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.”
“People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.”
“All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.”
“We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.
“But nobody can run from their own demons.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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